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Originally Posted by eleven=11
if you need a lesson for north America Why cant you look at France/Europe/England or japan and china?
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Most rails in Europe and the Far East are owned by the government and are subsidized, they are not owned by a private company actually making a profit with freight operations.
FYI, 2010 statistic per Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_freight_transport
Rail freight by network, billion tonne-km 2010
Gt-km Network Countries
2863 North America U.S., Canada, Mexico
2451 China
2351 Russia CIS, Finland, Mongolia
607 India
391 European Union 27 member countries
269 Brazil includes Bolivia (1)
115 South Africa includes Zimbabwe (1.6)
64 Australia
20 Japan
10 South Korea
North America had 732% more goods moved by trains than all of the EU.
Math = 2863/391 x 100 = 732%
If there were 700% more freight trains running on British railroads, would there be as much room for all their intercity passenger trains? The European model is not going to work where there are significantly more freight trains moving goods....and over longer distances.....